Through February 2nd, 2014, National Geographic is running an exhibit entitled ‘Lions & Tigers & Bears’ featuring 50 framed photographs of these incredible animals taken over several years by Panthera Media Director and National Geographic photographer, Steve Winter, along with NatGeo photographers Michael Nikols and Paul Nicklen.

Click here to learn more about how you can visit this exhibit at National Geographic’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Admission is free.

More on the Photographers

Steve Winter is the Director of Media for Panthera and has been a National Geographic photographer for almost two decades. He has produced stories for GEO, National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Natural History, Audubon, Business Week, Scientific American, and Stern, among other publications. Winter became a National Geographic Society Photographer in 1991, covering a multitude of subjects for the magazine, including Cuba, Russia's giant Kamchatka bears, tigers in Myanmar's Hukaung Valley, life along Myanmar's Irrawaddy River, jaguars in Latin America, and snow leopards in Ladakh, India. Learn more about Steve Winter.

Michael “Nick” Nichols, a native of Alabama, is an award-winning photographer whose work has taken him to the most remote corners of the world. He became a staff photographer for the National Geographic magazine in 1996 and was named editor at large in January 2008.

Paul Nicklen has indeed managed to get people’s attention. Whether he is ice diving among leopard seals in Antarctica, covering hundreds of miles of terrain in minus 40°F temperatures, or mastering aerial shots from his ultralight plane, Paul Nicklen has specialized in photographing polar regions since 1995. His images reflect a reverence for the creatures inhabiting these isolated and endangered environments, and he hopes to generate global awareness about wildlife issues through his work.